Natural risks and geoscience research: a new BRGM-IPGP partnership

02.08.2019

The BRGM and the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics (IPGP) signed an initial framework agreement on 18 January 2019, aiming to strengthen their scientific cooperation.

Michèle Rousseau, Chair and Managing Director of the BRGM, and Marc Chaussidon, Director of the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics, signed the first framework agreement between the two organisations on 18 January 2019.

This 4-year agreement aims to strengthen the already significant scientific cooperation between the BRGM and the IPGP on both volcanic and seismic risk monitoring and geoscience research.

Reciprocal cooperation for teaching in higher education and training is also planned.

In the words of Michèle Rousseau, the BRGM Chair and Managing Director, this is "a partnership with a highly complementary institute of excellence, from which we anticipate many fruitful prospects for the future".

"An important agreement that opens up numerous prospects with the BRGM, an authoritative public institution in the Earth Sciences and a natural and historic partner for the IPGP", says Marc Chaussidon, the Director of the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics.

Some BRGM-IPGP projects in 2019

Seismology and modelling of gravitational processes and tsunamis: modelling torrential processes for assessments of associated risks (thesis begun in October 2017);

From hazards to risks (earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis):

study of tsunamis triggered by gravitational destabilisation: applications to coastline issues in France, including the Caribbean, and use in the Caribbean of a range of automated tools for estimating earthquake outcomes to support crisis management;

updated estimations and zoning of volcanic hazards in the south of Basse-Terre.